On the
ATI side of the world, they had the booth babes let me tell you. At CES
PowerColor's twin models really got my attention and brought me running
to the booth. In all seriousness though, the ATI display at the Show was
very impressive. They had a few systems for use to the general public
and along the one wall was a display of at least four of the main ATI
manufacturers. Two in particular that I personally have heard nothing
but rave reviews were
PowerColor and
Connect 3D. Both had similar setups displaying their latest products. If
not mistaken, PowerColor just received awards for their 7 newer video
cards from the "Taiwanese
Symbol of Excellence Awards". This award was given for being one of
the most reputable companies for "best design and highest quality
products."
Link to Release Document.
PowerColor is
one of the leading manufacturers of the ATI cards and has been proving
themselves every step of the way. PowerColor was established in 1999 in
the City of Industry CA, providing products in North and South America.
They provide a full line of 9000 Series and X-series ATI cards to fit
any client's needs. All products are ISO 9001 Certified guaranteeing
quality and reliability.

PowerColor
released three new products at the CES show the "Theater
550 PRO TV turner", the "X850
Series" and the "X800XL"
all of these products help to complete PowerColor's line of ATI PCIe and
Video solutions. If these products are anything like PowerColor's
previous releases they will do well. The X850 has what looks to be an
Artic-Cooling VGA cooler or similar so make sure you have the room for
the cooling device. The X850 is the most advanced gaming card made by
PowerColor using its Power throttling technology. This architecture also
provides dual-DVI support and HDTV output capabilities for large screen
gamming.

The 550 PRO TV tuner card will complete any multi-media PC
with fully integrated Coax VI/VO and S-video hook ups. This card work
both in PCI & PCIe slots giving multiple applications for home video
theater setup. All of
PowerColor's
products are Certified ATI designs to insure product quality.

Here are some nice images to
PowerColor's 550 TV tuner card

And PowerColor's X850 XT PCIe Video Card

Also
included at the exhibit was a nice display of ATI’s newer Mother boards.
I know we are talking Video cards, but I just wanted to add some photos
of the new ATI products. Anyhow,

In a
different building I also stumbled across another ATI graphics
manufacturer.
Sapphire Inc. They had two beautiful booth models in skin tight
latex suits displaying the video cards and drawing crowds to the
products. Sapphire is a very well known ATI chip set graphics card
manufacturer. They recently teamed up with Artic-Cooling to create a
better cooling solution that comes in stock with the newer X800 & X850
cards. These products are the latest and greatest gaming cards ATI has
to offer. Notice the extra care put into the design of these two cards
in the photos below. If you decide on buying any of these product from
Sapphire, make sure you have room. The extra cooling power means extra
space, so you will lose a IO slot. Overall,
Sapphire’s
exhibit and documentation were well done. The give-away's and over all
appearance of the booth made me want to look, well the hot babes helped.
Nice job Sapphire! I was glad to see your booth and products.

Sapphire Tech Booth And Babes

What we have shown above is Sapphire's newest addition to their X-series
graphics chip set, the X850 with Vi/VO capabilities. Please note the
cooling unit design, especially for this card by Artic-Cooling.

Sapphire also had one of their
very popular X700 pro cards as well. This card has a custom
Artic-Cooling cooler very similar to the Silence NV series.